Around 262 million years ago, during the middle Permian Period, a new family of reptiles emerged. Pareiasaurs – meaning “cheek lizards”, a reference to the flat flanges of bone that make up their ...

There’s a vibrant scene painted on the overhang of a sandstone cliff in the Koesberg mountains, central South Africa, that’s challenging local traditions of paleontology. Spanning 30-feet in all, it ...

A tiny fragment of bumpy fossil found in a cave in Oklahoma is now the oldest known piece of preserved skin, paleontologists reported Thursday in the journal Current Biology. The discovery allows ...

In a limestone cave beneath the oil fields of southwestern Oklahoma, scientists have uncovered something that should not have survived: a fingernail-sized patch of reptile skin that has remained three ...

Researchers have discovered a previously unknown species of a crocodile-like reptile that lived around 250 million years ago. The new species belongs to an extinct group of animals known as ...

Researchers believe they’ve found the oldest known fossilized skin, hidden away in a limestone cave system in Oklahoma. The skin sample dates to the early Permian Period, between 289 million years ago ...

The full recovery of ecological systems, following the most devastating extinction event of all time, took at least 30 million years, according to new research from the University of Bristol. About ...

More than 30,000 teeth, bones and other fossils from a 249 million-year-old community of extinct marine reptiles, amphibians, bony fish and sharks have been discovered on the remote Arctic island of ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s ...